Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore stories set after disasters that transform civilisation.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 431 films · Page 8.
Drama, disaster film, drama film, post-apocalyptic film
The Wetherly family—husband Tom, wife Carol, and children Brad, Mary Liz, and Scottie—live in the fictional suburb of Hamelin, California, north of Santa Rosa. Tom, the breadwinner, works in San Francisco, 60 miles south. On a routine afte…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, disaster film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
On July 5, a mysterious phenomenon briefly darkens the sky over Hamilton, New Zealand. Zac Hobson, a scientist working on Project Flashlight (an experiment designed to create a wireless global energy grid), awakens to find all radio transm…
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Aliens, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
While participating in a human mission to Mars, astronauts led by Commander Patrick Ross, Anne Sampas and Dennis Gamble collect soil samples. While returning to Earth, the soil thaws and releases an alien substance that contaminates them a…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Horror
In 2012, a viral pandemic which turns people into rabid "ferals" ravages the world. A young girl named Abigail, her mother and brother prepare to evacuate and join their father, who is abroad, but on the verge of leaving they are attacked …
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Fantasy, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film
GNN television journalist Cameron "Buck" Williams reports from Israel about a new technology which will allow food to grow in inhospitable environments. He interviews Israeli scientist Chaim Rosenzweig, and praises him for creating a mirac…
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Animalhorror, drama film, horror film, monster film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, zombie film
Dr. Jennifer "Jenny" Pailey brings her sister Lisa to Snowfield, Colorado, a small ski resort village nestled in the Rocky Mountains where Jenny works. There, the sisters find no one around but some corpses.
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Romance Film, Sci-Fi, drama film, post-apocalyptic film, romance film, science fiction film
Sometime beyond AD 2600, long after humanity has been wiped out by an unknown extinction event, a weather buoy awakens and makes contact with a passing satellite, left in orbit to greet any lifeform that encounters Earth. The lonely buoy d…
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Horror, Mysterie, action film, disaster film, exploitation film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
In Evans City, Pennsylvania, a man kills his wife and burns down his farmhouse. Firefighters David and Clank—both Vietnam War veterans—are called to the scene. David's pregnant girlfriend, a nurse named Judy, is called to the office of Dr.
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, B movie, Fantasy, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
A nomadic scavenger treks through an irradiated wasteland and discovers a buried robot. He collects the pieces and takes them to junk dealer Alvy, who is talking with 'Hard Mo' Baxter, a former soldier, and Mo's friend Shades. When Alvy st…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
The world is in chaos six months after the Rapture took millions of people, and a new charismatic leader named Nicolae Carpathia is gaining prominence. Unclear whether he can be trusted or if he has a larger plan that involves the Tribulat…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Komödie, Sci-Fi, disaster film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the late 20th century, a large-scale nuclear war ends in a nuclear holocaust. In the aftermath, Earth has become a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where, due to fallout, most humans have been rendered sterile. As a result, the government pl…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Mysterie, disaster film, horror film, science fiction film
The film opens with a montage of scenes of daily life in Australia in the 1970s— a rural school in the desert with children playing, the main street of an Outback town, a traffic jam in the city— all being affected by unusually adverse wea…
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Action, Thriller, Time Travel, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In 2009, the super-wealthy achieve immortality by hiring "bonejackers", mercenaries equipped with time travel devices, to snatch people from the past, just prior to the moment of their deaths, for use as substitute bodies. Those who escape…
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Family Drama, Zombiefilm, drama film, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, zombie film
In the present-day Midwest United States, society struggles to function in the aftermath of a zombie pandemic (Necroambulism) barely under control. Maggie Vogel calls her father from a broken city under curfew; her voicemail urges that he …
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Humans have built climate modification towers to control Earth's warming climate due to climate change. The towers, however, inadvertently cause a new ice age. By 2045, the remnants of human civilization live in underground bunkers to esca…
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Sci-Fi, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
In 1940, businessman John Cabal, living in the city of Everytown in Southern England, cannot enjoy Christmas Day as the news speaks of possible war. His guest, Harding, shares his worries, while another friend, the over-optimistic Pippa Pa…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Social Drama, disaster film, drama film, dystopian film
The film begins with a young professional suddenly going blind in his car while at an intersection, with his field of vision turning white. A seemingly kind passerby offers to drive him home. However, he then steals the blind man's car.
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Action, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, drama film, post-apocalyptic film, romance film, science fiction film, thriller film, time-travel film
In the year 2055, the Chicago-based Time Safari company offers the opportunity for rich people to hunt dinosaurs in the past via time travel technology. As a precaution against the potential change of the past, the company preys only on th…
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Horror, dystopian film, horror film, monster film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
A meteor shower blinds most of the world's population and spreads spores that cause triffid plants to become animated. Bill Masen, an American merchant marine, escapes the catastrophe after spending the night in a hospital with his eyes ba…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, End Times Road Movie, post-apocalyptic film, thriller film
The US Government conducts a catastrophic chemical weapons attack on the American populace to "reset" society. The surviving population of America divides into two groups. The Gangs, who name themselves Gamblers, Sheets, Plowboys, Nailers,…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, disaster film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
First Lieutenant Jake Tanner shares ICBM silo duty at a US Air Force missile base in the Mojave Desert in eastern California with Major Eugene "Sam" Denton. Denton notifies Tanner he's requesting that command reassign him, considering Tann…
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Action, Animation, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action anime and manga, anime, fantasy film, post-apocalyptic film
The lead character, Colin MacLeod, became an Immortal after his first death in 125 AD in Roman Britain, when his village in England was attacked and destroyed by the conquering Romans. Another Immortal, Marcus Octavius, was leading the Rom…
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Found Footage, Sci-Fi, Thriller, drama film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film
After a catastrophic global population collapse, an unnamed man, known only as the Survivalist, lives alone in woodland. He protects a small cabin and vegetable plot with traps and alarms, surviving by hunting, foraging and farming. Two st…
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Animalhorror, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, horror film, science fiction film
After a spectacular and mysterious cosmic event, ants of different species undergo rapid evolution, develop a cross-species hive mind, and build seven strange towers with geometrically perfect designs in the Arizona desert. Except for one …
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